America Working Forward: Special Edition Skills Gap Report

These should be flush times for American business. Interest rates are low. So are energy prices, give or take a weather-related spike. The stock markets continue to climb. The most aggressive rollback to regulations in a generation is under way. It’s a great time to expand. But all too often, those plans are running into a headwind. The problem? If you talk, like we did, to many executives in numerous industries and in businesses of all sizes, you’ll hear that the biggest stumbling block to growth is a shortage of skilled workers.